Newborn Winter Singlets

Hi there, just wondering what everyone thought about newborn singlets. Im trying to decide whether to have long sleeve cotton with a short sleeve wool singlet on top, or whether to just get a long sleeve merino singlet (as i have heard the "breathe" better and are soft enough to put against the skin without itching etc). Just wondering what others have done or are doing out there with their winter babies?

With Maya I used some great Cotton/Wool blend ones that I got from Target in Oz, the gremlins just had 100% cotton and I layered it up.
I have decided I heart merino tho and this bub will have cotton singlets and merino gowns/clothes. I especially love the Mokopuna Merino range that we stock in our OHbaby! store. I am coveting some of their newborn gowns and hats and the gremlins have their legwarmers and hats in Ruby Stripe.

Lol Emma,...u just cant resist can u ?!!

Naive question ahead - how well wrapped up do winter newborns need to be? If you had them in a long sleeve cotton singlet and fluffy stretch in gro in the house (with fire on) then swaddled up in bed (and a jersey/blanket/hat when going out), would that do? I live in Auckland. I'm just cautious about wool cos I had alergies as a kid but merino is pricey given they'll only wear it for a short time.

Oh and I used to swaddle Maya with fleece blankets her first winter, she would have been 4-5 mths old in the middle of winter. Used muslin wraps for the gremlins coz it was summer.

Ooh the other thing I absolutely heart that I have for the gremlins is a Grobag Egg from Baby Stuff. It tells you the temp in baby's room and changes color so it's super easy to tell if the room is too hot/cold. In the winter we used to run an oil fin heater in their room to keep it at the optimum 16-20 degrees, and if the room got too warm/cool we could adjust the heater accordingly.

Lol re: the knitting/yoga/coffee! I have had to resort to metal needles, as I tend to snap them! (For the blankets, because the needle gauge is quite small, and the wool is so fine, the stitches end up so tiny, and I tend to place too much tension on them anyway!)

Gro eggs sound like a plan also!

Will have to start finding patterns for cool newborn hats! (I still have issues knitting anything not completey flat!lol )

I love the Cotton on Kids singlets. You can get them sleeveless or capped sleeved.

I got Cooper a really cool sleeping bag from Baby Factory for $20. He loves it now, and won't go to sleep without it.

I used to put it in a onesies singlet, a stretch & grow and wrapped. His bed was flannelette sheets, a polar fleece blanket and a quilt. He seemed fine in that. I used to wrap in when we went out too. That was September, so it was slowly starting to get warmer.

Around home when he was in the lounge, he was always wrapped. He preferred it that way.

Oh rambling.

mareed wrote: Thanks for all your help! There are so many options out there these days it does get confusing! Im going to use cotton singlets with wool on top (only because i have wool ones left from my first baby) and will use a merino wrap.

Thats what we do here.

just wanted to say that i gave my winter baby heat rash in winter!!! poor guy had hormonal spots and heat rash, boy did he look a sight... i would make sure whatever you use is breathable cause i think thats where i went wrong.